[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

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.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone [in Syria].