When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.
Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.
No human being can ever ‘own’ another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.’
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
All of life is a constant education.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.