The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Courage is exhilarating.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

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