"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously"

"When trouble ends even troubles please"

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease"

"Friends show their love in times of trouble"

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill"

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties"