Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Love is a hidden treasure. You never know you have it until someone special reveals it.

You are born with a crown.Create your own kingdom!

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.