In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!