Followers emulate the behavior of the leader.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

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

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.