Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.