One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.