It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. 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.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.