A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.