No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A lie never lives to be old.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

A person preaches well that lives well.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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 no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.