For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.