I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.