We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

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.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

We’re all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.