The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

No. They believe we’re dumb animals. And they won’t contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Take a long pause ...breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.