Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.