To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.