“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”
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“We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.”
“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.”
“Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.”
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.”
“I hope you're getting this down.”
“We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.”
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
“What you are comes to you.”
“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”
“Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering”
“Your aspirations are your possibilities.”
“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
“Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.”
“Dear Jesus, do something.”
“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”
“I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.”