Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.

T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

I know my girlfriend is free-spirited. I know she's so charming that it's disarming. I get it. And I know that every man is going to fall in love with her.