Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

Failure has no friends.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.