Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

That which costs little is less valued.