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

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

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.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.