The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

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.

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.

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.

Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty, Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

I don't like crowds or attention.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

I tried to freshen up a room, so I held a Certs in front of a fan.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.