A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.