“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.