There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

The day of individual happiness has passed

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.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.