The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.