John Zimmerman

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.