Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.