Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.