“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Achievement has no color.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera’s men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

That we live in a post-truth society today, and that we don’t care, that we have lost empathy. We have stopped caring for each other in a way. We have stopped thinking long-term and sustainable. And that’s something that goes much deeper than just climate crisis deniers.

But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.