"The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy."

"The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does."

"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."

"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."

"Every child deserves a home and love. Period."

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."

"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"The reason it's a clich茅 is because it's true."