There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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.

Ignorance is the deepest sin of dark doom.

Be kind enough to love those who don't deserve your love.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.