Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.

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.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

I wish to be with you forever, to look upon your face always, to never leave your side.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.