Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.