I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.