Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

Never compare yourself to others because you are unique and beautiful in your own ways.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.