When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

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.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.