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.

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

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.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Family is not an important thing, it is everything

The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!

If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.