While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

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.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.