"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."

"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."

"Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."