Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is found...
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to pr...
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the cho...
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring...
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.