I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.