The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

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

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

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

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.