Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.

The mark of humanity is how it treats the world and those who share it with us...

The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.