When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.