Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

This young century will be liberty’s century.