"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

"To master the mind is to understand that the greatest battles are fought within."

"To master the mind is to understand that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom."

"Wisdom principle 15 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 22."