If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

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.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.