If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

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.

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.