My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.