I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.