The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I am more interested in what can be done with the knowledge than in the knowledge itself.

Heredity is nothing, environment is everything.

在必要时，一个国家杀死暴君的权利永远不应受到质疑。

过去从未死去，它甚至还没有过去。

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.

成功不仅在于你取得了什么，还在于你如何取得它。