I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.