The U. S. must renounce any U. S. interest in constructing permanent U. S. military bases in Iraq.
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.