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

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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.

A leader's greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

False leaders create followers by lying.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.