When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.