“if you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing”

“ability is nothing, without opportunity”

“When small men attempt great enterprises , they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity”

“there is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at , and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”

“A (leader) is always wrong who speaks in anger.”

“Nothing goes well in a system in which words are in contradiction to facts. The best policy is simplicity and truth”

“a (leader) must speak to the eye.it does well with the people”

“None but indolent (leaders) grow fat in their palaces.”

“Respect the people you deliver.”

“ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent”

“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god”