If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

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.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.