Bold

Be a hero in your own life. Do the bold thing, do the honorable thing. Do the thing that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Do it for the simple heroic reason you feel it's right.

Fantasizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

You have not earned the right to do less than your best.

He must cling fast to his faith in freedom and insist that freedom is the chief glory of mankind. He must not commit injustice or acquiesce when he sees it done by others.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. For life is time, and time is all there is.

We don't need to accept this state of affairs and all the other increasingly imposed limitations of our society without a fight.

BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Keep on reading. And remember when you hear yourself saying you don't have time anymore to read — then you're getting old. That means they got to you, after all.

You cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education: you will do much better to think of being here to claim one.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

It means insisting that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be different.

Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough — more than enough — of war and hate and oppression.