One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

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