Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.