“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

“The time is always right to do what's right.”