“We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.”

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”

“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”