Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.