All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. 

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.