I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.