The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

It is difficult to violently suppressed people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. 

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.