There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

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.

Life is a weirdly themed party

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.