The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Common sense is not so common.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.