I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

I'm going to live in the White House with my family.

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

The only way to do it is to do it.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.