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

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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

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

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?