The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

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 through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.