America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.