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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.