An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Whatever you can do, do it today and then old age will be a delicious fruit.
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
You can either have an hour of hope or an hour of despair.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
The Creator made women to please the eyes and trouble the mind.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
War is what happens when language fails.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
I write to reach eternity.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
