"Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does."

“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.”

“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”

“Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'”

“Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.”

Source : "Future: A Recent History". Book by Lawrence R. Samuel, p. 92, June 2009.

“why are we so monumentally slow?”

“What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.”

“Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.”

“Be the designer of your own destiny.”