If we are to negotiate the coming years safely we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Hope deceiving as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
India is a curious place that still preserves the past religions and its history. No matter how modern India becomes it is still very much an old country.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
A speculator is a man who observes the future and acts before it occurs.
Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
Every American deserves to live in freedom to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race gender ethnicity or economic circumstances.
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America America: economic freedom individual liberty and personal responsibility.
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
We hear all around us to love ourselves and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body but also for us to love the food we're eating.
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.