I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
What is to give light must endure burning.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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.
