I know the price of success dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

Freedom is from within

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy

The truth is more important than the facts