The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.