There's no such thing as a grown up person.

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.

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.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets.

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.