Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. – The taste of anything can be changed. – But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and engagement of all.
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.