“There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and “how well you look”.”

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

You have a challenge; never quit!

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, ‘urgently requires.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

In the middle 1940s… I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.