There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..