You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

That which costs little is less valued.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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.

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

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A lie never lives to be old.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.