The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

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

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.