I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.