Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.