“I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.”

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”

“The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.”

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?”

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”