Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.