How do you recover from disaster? You do it by meeting it and going on. From each you learn something, from each you acquire additional strength, and confidence in yourself to meet the next one when it comes.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Any President frequently suffers from his friends as much as from his enemies, and it is the sense of loyalty and gratitude, which often gets men in public life into the greatest trouble.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

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