Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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.

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.