The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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 love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.