We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

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.

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I am tough but I have a soft side.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.

It's easier to deny the reality of the problem altogether than acknowledge that it is real.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.