Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

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.

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.