There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

History is more or less bunk.  

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. 

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.