Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

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.

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.

Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.

Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn’t mean you have to let it get in your eyes.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.