Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years scold them. By the time they turn sixteen treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife, or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is by Christian standards in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

In order to have friends you must first be one.

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