once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.