We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.