This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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.

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.