You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.