To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

The day of individual happiness has passed

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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