Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

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.

Self-confident people are mindful about spending their time, energy, and interests on things that truly matter.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months

Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.