"I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream."

“Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.”

“As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.”

“What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn’t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.”

“Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.”

“One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”

“As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.”

Source : Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.