Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.