"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

"It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it."

"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."

"The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing."

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."

"If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."

"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."

"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."