Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

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.

It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

Everyone has secrets, Lou, ” she says. “Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to.

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.