True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.”
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.