The look of city is the reflection of the outlook of its denizens.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. 

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.