The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

No great thing comes without a curse.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

We did discuss the wall [with Enrique Pena]. We didn't discuss payment of the wall. That'll be for a later date. A lot of the things I said are very strong, but we have to be strong.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.