Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

A President cannot always be popular.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The buck stops here!

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.