Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.
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