The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

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!

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.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

The earth is blue like an orange.

Let's build Paradise again.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.