The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.