Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

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.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.