A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.