A leader has the vision of conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.