... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.