"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."