If you must compromise, compromise up.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.