Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.