Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

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.

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.

The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.