The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.