A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.