Failure has no friends.

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.

She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car’s hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.

Plastic flowers last for hours

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.