Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

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.

Glorious death is a transition into heavenly glories

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

When you have a choice, choose happy!

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.