It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views

Nissa, you have a kind and bold heart, Follow it, and you will never go astray.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.