Sappiate dunque ch'io sono...

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".