Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs