Leadership is not something that you learn once and for all. It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that grow and change as you do.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Change how you see and see how you change.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

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.

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.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

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

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.