It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.