Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.