Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

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.

Let us dance in the rain to enjoy the rainbows and to get lost in the beauty of nature.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.