Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

It sure is hell to be president.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

God has entrusted me with myself.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.