When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life without risks is not worth living.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.