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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
“All of life is a constant education.”
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
“You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.”
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
“There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots.”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”