You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

Lately silence is my song of love.

Embrace love

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.