I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

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

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.