Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.