What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?
To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed. . . No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.