You create your own universe as you go along.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.