To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Character is a journey, not a destination.
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas. . . Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow - before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.