America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

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Everyday we have a high calling that we need to fulfill and everyday we can do it whether it's just to smile at somebody we little know.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.