You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.