I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others have not been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. 

Small aim is a crime.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dull or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. 

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.