Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.
I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them.
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.