Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
I hear the mournful wail of millions!
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
The opposite of compromise is character.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
Despair. . . is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
I recognize no empire of this present age.