Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

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.

Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.