I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.