When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.