The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Everything human is pathetic

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.