I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.