America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. 

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I should tie myself to a particular system of society other than of socialism.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.