"Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them."

"Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense."

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

"Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget."

"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject."

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

"Be the first to the field and the last to the couch."

"You cannot fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken."

"Ambition is not a vice of little people."