"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

"It ain't over 'til it's over."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."

"The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas."

"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."