Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities.

There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.