I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.