"This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

"Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign."

"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something."

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."