The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

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.

lonelyness is the only friend that last forever than having friendship among people

I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.