The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

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

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.