Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. 

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmonent and the other by acts of love. Power based  love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.