Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

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