One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

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.

Man can have faith without religion, but religion cannot have faith without man.

When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.