The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.