I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps