The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
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.