Memory should be the starting point of the present.

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.

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

Life is more about losing than winning.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.