Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.