"The undeserver may sleep when the man..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.”

“Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?”

“Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.”

“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.”

“The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.”