We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

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.

Praise children when they do good, And if they should stumble or fall, Show them how to be humble, Show them how to stand tall

It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.