Philosophical Sayings

Leadership is not about making everyone happy; it's about making the tough decisions.

I am the black Hitler of Africa. I am going to be the most powerful man in the world.

I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action.

We tend to forget that every revolution or social change is like a tree — it grows from the bottom up, not the top down. However small it may seem to begin, that does not matter because it will grow.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Laughter is the only free emotion—the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter expl…

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

The old image of one person with a torch is part of the problem, not the solution. We each need a torch if we are to see where we're going. And together, we create so much more light.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.