Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

A person preaches well that lives well.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.