The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Running away can also be running to.

There’s no such thing as half family.

Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

Grief is a circular staircase.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!