Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

Success equals goals

You think that peace means that no one will fight. True peace is when you create peace within yourself leaving no one to fight.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.