Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.