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.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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 season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.