The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.

There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

sidelong fix'd her eye on Saturn's face: There saw she direst strife; the supreme God At war with all the frailty of grief, Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge, Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.Perpetual hope is good for the heart.Perpetual faith is good for the heart.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy, even when she was sad. And that's important.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.