Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

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.

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.