Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

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.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten

Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.