An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.