No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

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.

Unless we progress, we regress.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.