What convinces is conviction.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

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.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.