I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.