It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

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.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

To innovate is not to reform.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Marriage is the death of hope.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.