You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.