Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

History is written by the winners.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs

I write poems to figure things out

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.