Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.