"Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come."

"It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts."

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes."

"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

"Only a fool walks backwards into the future."

"RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."

"I am not afraid... I was born to do this."