The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.