Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?
Drive out the tiger by the front gate and let in the wolf by the back gate,...
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.
We must have hope or starve to death.
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Love dies only when growth stops.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
One faces the future with one’s past.