I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.