I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

Faith can turn the night to light.

Real friends, are really hard to come by.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

I live to feel myself in danger.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.