There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.