Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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

This is the thing that I was born to do.

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

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.