"A King should sacrifice the best affections..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.”

“The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory”

“It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.”

“What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.”

“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”

“My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”