All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions

La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.