"Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it."

"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."

"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."

"It's not the questions that get us in trouble. It's the answers."

"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents."

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

"Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards."

"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."