The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.