Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.