Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

I think I did a great job and a great service not only for the country, but even for the president [Barack Obama], in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

It will be harder because they are going to want revenge, they need revenge.