- "People can cry much easier than they can change."
- "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."
- "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
- "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
- "It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
- "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
- "Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."
- "The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
- "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
- "Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
- "When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
- "Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
- "Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
- "Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
- "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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