I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

The power of health and wealth lies in tithing.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn’t worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.