Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

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.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.