How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.