Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliban, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Life should be great rather than long.

He would make a lovely corpse.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.