To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.