Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Everybody wants something.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire