If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

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.

I am animated by my joyful life. I let my inner child feel loved and experience joy every day.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

The business end of business has never interested me.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to America in terms of making our product.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.