The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. 

We can't afford to be killing one another.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.