No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

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.

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

I'd rather dance than eat.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

I want to play a strong, kickass girl in heels. I'm better in heels. I can run faster in them than in flats.