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

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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

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

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

A jug fills drop by drop.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.