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

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

My future is one I must make myself.

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

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.