“It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.”

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.