America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

We were poor, but we smiled.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Africa is on the rise.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

To innovate is not to reform.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

I will not be triumphed over.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.