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

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

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.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.