Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.