The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands..

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it..

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..

History is still in large measure poetry to me..

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince..