Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
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.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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.?
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
A jug fills drop by drop.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
A good liar must have a good memory.