Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

A healthy body is an ideal home for a healthy mind.

Computers make me totally blank out.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board it can be safely brought to part.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.