Question any leader that tries to control you.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

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.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Esteem to your higher self.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.