Solutions are not the answer.

Every President wants to do right.

If you judge, investigate.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Imagination decides everything.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.