Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I am a tough guy.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.