"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."

"Security is a process, not a product."

"Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be."

"It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume."

"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."

"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."

"It's not my Goddamn planet! Understand, Monkey-Boy?"

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope."