. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

He that is low need fear no fall.

I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?