“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Trust, but verify.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

People are just not impressed by me at home.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Anyone who has any kind of capacity to truly let go and give into yourself with any kind of desire to hold on for dear life.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.