I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.