You reach your real height when you stand up for what you believe.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

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

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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