When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.