Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.