I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.