Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

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.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.