Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

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.

Even fools are right sometimes.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.