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.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.