Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.