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.

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.

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.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.