Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

Freedom is from within.

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

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.