Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Be that self which one truly is.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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