You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.