Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangem...
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever afte...
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows fr...
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived thr...
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priori...
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.