Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The liar’s punishment is not the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.