90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Dictators are the most insecure people on earth.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

If you're going through hell, keep going.