If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.