If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.