Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A person preaches well that lives well.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Fashion changes, but style endures.