Within each of us is a leader that wants to step forward.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.