We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.