The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Nothing happens until something moves.

There's a genius in all of us.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.