The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

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.

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

Things work out the way they're supposed to.

The prose, ” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.