The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

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.