Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

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.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.