Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.