Being humble could be dangerous. Humility may be mistaken for submission.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Politics is not a game. It's an earnest business.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

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

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.