"To understand a person, you must understand their relationship with pain."

"There is a strange comfort in acknowledging our own mortality."

"We are all searching for a state of purity that probably doesn't exist."

"The more we try to control nature, the more it rebels against us."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

"It is a timeless truth that the spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence."

"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."