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

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Freedom lies in being bold.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.