I must follow the people. Am I not their leader.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.