Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

I'm welding the bimbo room shut.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.