The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

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.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.