If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

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.

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

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

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.