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“Stop Learning and start thinking.”
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“Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.”
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“This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.”
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“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
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“Stand for right, even if you stand alone.”
Source : "Examples of Righteousness". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2008. 
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“There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.”
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“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”
Source : Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5
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“I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here.”
