A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.