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.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

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'.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

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.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.