I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.