Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

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.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

I am determined to write daily.

Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

We're Tuesday people.

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.