The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.