If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.