If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.