There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive position but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.  

He who hath many friends hath none.

Disagreement is something normal.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?