Goons thrive on the silence of the masses.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

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

Laughter is America's most important export.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.