Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

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.

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.