In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.