A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

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.

After winter, spring never forgets to come.

The less they know, the more they know it all.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

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I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts