Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
Courage is not having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.