A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.