It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!