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.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Be that self which one truly is.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Common sense is not so common.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Thought is free.

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.