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

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.