So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.
...without equality there can be no democracy.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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.
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.