Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.