You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

No man is a failure who has friends.

When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

I finally feel free. I ain't going nowhere.

News coverage is one element among a whole solar system of elements that shapes how people react to public events, ... It doesn't take a news organization to tell you that your son or daughter or husband or wife has been deployed. It doesn't take a news organization to tell you that the kid who used to deliver your newspaper is now in the local cemetery.