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.

Do something everyday that scares you.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.