Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.