Compromise does not mean cowardice.

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.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

You shall leave everything you love.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.