If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat..

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of whic….

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city poli….

When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet ….

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows..

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts..

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunsh….

[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the h….

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a w….

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped a….

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away f….

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead..

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really..

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes..