"You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue."

"I have sometimes thought that it was a good thing that I was not a man, for I should have been a very restless man."

"If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world."

"I find it much more interesting to be alive than not to be alive."

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."