It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.