"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

"War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups."

"In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way."