Anger is one letter short of danger.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music – that would be rest.
A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
To leave the world richer – that is the ultimate success.
Change means the unknown.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
What one has to do usually can be done.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.