Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

My presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need not be deferred.

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

What I love best in life is new starts.