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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.