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.

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.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

False leaders create followers by lying.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.