A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

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.

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.

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.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

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.