Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.