The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t really learned anything.

Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br> I took the one less traveled by, <br> And that has made all the difference.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.