"Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it."

“Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.”

“I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.”

“Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.”

“No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.”

Source : "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

“I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.”

“The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.”

“He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.”