The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.