"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails."

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love."

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."

"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

"It is a enduring truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience."

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."