It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Real leaders can change the world, but the world will not change real leaders.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.