True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

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.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

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

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.