"Responsibility is something that you have to take, not something that you are given."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The emperor is naked, but he is still the emperor."

"The best way to destroy a totalitarian system is to live as if it does not exist."

"Politics, when it is done well, is a service to others, not a means to personal power or enrichment."