It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.