It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

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.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.