"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!"

"Specialization is for insects."

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

"People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt."

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)."

"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."

"Knowledge, like religion, must be 'experienced' in order to be known."

"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."