Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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.

Struggle forms character

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

I have a whole guard room full of brawny veterans who'd enjoy a chance to drag two Eddisians out of here, particularly if you kicked a lot and they could kick you back.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?