Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

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

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility