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

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.