Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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.

When you judge another, you judge a child of God, and when you condemn another, you condemn your Heavenly Father.

Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be.

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

the horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.

The past is what the present is doing now.

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.