I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Never fade into your life, Never stop imagining, Never give up on your dreams, You only fail, when you think you have failed.

Never stop learning, when you stop learning, life stops.

This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

There's no reason to think that markets always drive people to what's good for them.

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.