I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.