Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.