Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.