God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

We must believe the things We teach our children

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.