"No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)"

"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy."

"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

"Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor."

"Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable."

"We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars."

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness."

"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together."

"Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller."