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.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

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.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.