It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Strength is not determined by the looks but through action.

Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

Constant repetition carries conviction.