Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.