The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.