True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television.

I would have made a good Pope.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.