Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.