Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

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

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 think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.