The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.