Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Be grateful for the blessing of the moments.

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.