“My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.”

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Don’t ask ‘Why’, ask instead, ‘Why not’.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you ‘re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

The reason my comments always get you into your feelings is because deep down, you know what I am saying is true.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him.