An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.

Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.