People

If I’m America’s poet, or one of them, then I want to be in people’s hands. All people’s hands. People who would never buy a book.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

- Ronald Reagan

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.