The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were

Only a god can save us.

Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Every sovereign country has the right to control its borders, and should. The idea that anyone would sneak over our borders without proper documentation to me is absolutely abhorrent.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.