If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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

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

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

God always has patience.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.