Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

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.

Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter.

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

Diplomacy is living in state.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.