To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

There is no Love Failure but for the Broken Heart.

If the whole world followed you, Followed to the letter, Tell me if it followed you, Would the world be better?

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.