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

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.