I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.