I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

I have money, but my most important capital is the trust of the people.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

I travel as much as I can and meet people.

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

For every Way there's a way of following that Way that's fun

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.