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.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.