Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
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.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.