“Sometimes how we react to a problem or a defeat is as important as the defeat itself.”
“I have tried to keep my mind open to what other people think, even if I disagree… I think that’s an element of leadership – not just talking but listening.”
“Any definition of a successful life must include serving others.”
“We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”
“I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.”
“Some see leadership as high drama, and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that. But I see history as a book with many pages, and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.”
“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.”
“America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.”
“The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.”
“America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.”