The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

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 people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

In a sick world even the hale are sick.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling