The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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.

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

Did you bring me a rat?""He has no time for rats, George.""No time for rats? That's just sad.

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I fix things. Believe me, when you hear about tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

You know, never say never.

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa