The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles