One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.