He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.