I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.