The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

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.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.