I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.