No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

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.

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.

Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.