The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.