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.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Once you label me you negate me.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.