Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

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...

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

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

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.