I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

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

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.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.