I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
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.
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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.
Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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 arrangement for the people.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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.
All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.