The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

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.

The weakness of one man is the strength of another, hence we all are different for a reason.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

What you are prepared to do in order to achieve what you want is the only cost involved in achieving that goal.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

I don't know anybody who is raising their hand saying, "Oh God, I love being vulnerable and needy."

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.