Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The lady's not for turning.

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

-- Benjamin Franklin

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

-- Mark Zuckerberg

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi