Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

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.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

A person who is confident and capablewill never feel insecure.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

Our Creator has always known of us and has always loved us.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

I am very little of a traveler.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.