The tree remains, but not so the hand that put it.

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

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

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

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

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.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.