I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time, " says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do..

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right

Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.