You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Self-discipline, self-realization and self-reliance.

Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible

And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.