I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.
I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well.
I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.
Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.
Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy!
It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Great things have small beginnings.
The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.
There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.
We don’t mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.
What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.
Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.
I’m a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.
Believe me, if a man doesn’t know death, he doesn’t know life.