A true leader talks with you, a false leaders talks at you.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

False leaders create followers by lying.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

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

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

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