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.

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

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.