I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

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.

Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt.

The Lord is a great provider.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.