He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

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.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I am not young enough to know everything.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.