I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.