No one can endure his own solitude.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.