Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.