English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.