There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

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.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.