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

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.