When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

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.

Where there is personality, there is discord.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.