It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.