Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.