If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.