Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

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.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.