It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.