I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

Don't pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

White people scare the crap out of me.

All you need to do is know who you are.

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.