William G. McAdoo

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

We’re cool for the summer.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.