A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.