Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Stop playing it safe. Start playing it big just like the big boys.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Nothing exists until it is measured.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.