Most of our people have never had it so good.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.