There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

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.

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.