There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

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.

Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.