"Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management."

"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."

"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed."

"Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance and those who delight in knowledge enter into still greater darkness, as it were."

"If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten."

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."

"Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling."

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."

"One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body."

"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."