The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Only the educated are free.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

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

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

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

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

I do believe in self-help.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

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.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.