In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

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.

Love those who value you and call you out on your BS.

I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.