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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

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

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Once you label me you negate me.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.