1. “Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.”
2. “It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter tells what kind of life you have lived.”
3. “You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
4. “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.”
5. “A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”
6. “To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”
7. “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
8. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
9. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
10. “Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.”
11. “The dog that trots about finds a bone.”
12. “Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”
13. “Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.”
14. “Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.”
15. “There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.”
16. “If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.”
17. “There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.”
18. “To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”
19. “You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.”
20. “Trust yourself. Create a kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”
