The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.