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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Sunlight is painting.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.