If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Ideas control the world.

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.