War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

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.

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.