The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.