What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!"
Whenever I face a hard decision or a risky situation in life (personally or professionally), all my thinking, all my analysis, all my planning can be boiled down to four simple questions:
1. What is the best thing that can happen if I do this?
2. What is the worst thing that can happen if I do this?
3. What is the best thing that can happen if I don't do it?
4. What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't do it?
I try all things, I achieve what I can.
I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.
Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.
The last thing I would say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics and get a lot of things done; in the end, public service and the national interest is what it is all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the future once.