This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they’ll kill you.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it…

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.