"But Goethe tells us in his greatest..." - Quote by John F Kennedy

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.”

“Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.”

“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.”

“Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.”

“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”

“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.”