To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

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.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

I like singing live. I'm actually very confident and I want to give the best to my fans.