The best way to move forward is to stop holding people back.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

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

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

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

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.