As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.