When the cat goes away, mice reign.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

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

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

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.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.