Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

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

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

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

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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

You can’t do something forever.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.