Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

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.