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.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A good liar must have a good memory.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

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.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

A lie never lives to be old.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

That which costs little is less valued.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.