If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.