My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.