“I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.”

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity.

I’m not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

Challenges will keep coming. And I’ll keep rising up to them.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

The best people want to work the big challenges.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.