“With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.”

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.

A man without words is a man without thought.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.

I maybe made some mistakes, but I’m only human.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

I have a great appreciation for our world’s history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we’ve made as a human race.