Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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 could feel myself peeking over at him. He was like a seatbelt for my soul.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.