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.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.