"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do."

"The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."

"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."

"Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest."