The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.