My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.