Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. 

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.