I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell