What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking.

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.