Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.