If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

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.

Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you've struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

I've been obsessed with The Beatles since I was two.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.