The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

Performance should be made square with promise.

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.