Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.