Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

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.

You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.