You can forget Stalin, ” he said, pledging his allegiance. “We’re not the History Channel.

One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere.

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing