Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or she had died long ago. Actually, he had only stopp… - Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.