Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.