If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.