I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?