Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

Freedom is from within.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Common sense is not so common.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Dare to risk public criticism.

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.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.