He who refuses to obey cannot command.

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

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.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

...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.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.