You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.