Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

I had a few miracles happen out there today.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.