One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.