The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

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.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

Malady of mortality

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.