When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.