Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.