make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it

The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.