You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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 bliss, except when it hurts

It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.