"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership."
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."