But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.

I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.