“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn’t love me!

Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

Art demands constant observation.

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

You can’t spell wholehearted without A.R.T.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.