I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.