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

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

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.