Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

History is written by the winners.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

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

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.