I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.