Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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.

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

God can make greatness out of a great mess

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.