What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

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