In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

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.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Guilt loves the passive.

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.