The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Success has many fathers.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.