"Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise"

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."

"It doesn't matter where you're coming from? all that matters is where you aregoing. You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into."

"It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside."

"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere."

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."

"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."

"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."

"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."

"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."

"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."