I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

No one can move without some leadership.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.