Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.