We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

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.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.