Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.