Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.