The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.