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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.