Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.