Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

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.

To create laughter, you must first learn to smile

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.

Biography is higher gossip.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.