The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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.

I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

To change the world takes time

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.