Teachers die, but books live on.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.