I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may...
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me...
It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without...
Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
. . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know?There is time, she said, but the sooner you know, the sooner you...
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.