The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

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.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.