If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.

The law of getting results says

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

They didn't guarantee you'd come out a whole person.

Shut up... or I'll kill you.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.