Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
For me to be a saint means to be myself.
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures,. . . especially the children of men.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.