Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.
I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
I take my responsibilities very seriously.