Stand up for your rhetoric or sit down.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.