Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

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.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.

I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.