A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

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.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

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

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

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.