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.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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.
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.?
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Once you label me you negate me.
