When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.