"A work well begun is half-ended...." - Quote by Plato

“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”

“If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.”

“Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?”

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“Everything starts with a story.”

“There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!”

“Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.”