Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

You can't have a motion without a debate.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.