Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

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.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.