I don’t write letters anymore.
We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Work like you dont need the money, love like youve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
