Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.