"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea"

"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"