We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who’s never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.