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

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

No man is lost while he yet lives.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.