You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

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.

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

She'd been trained as a child no to trust anyone, but he'd just saved her life, and she was freezing. He could be a yeti for all she cared.

Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.