When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.