"What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough."

"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen."

"If we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil."

"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."

"One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up."

"For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality."

"A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is."

"Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember."