To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Never give in and never give up.