“You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.”

…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.