I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.