In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.