Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

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.

ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

If He isn't Lord of all, He isn't Lord at all.

O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.