what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.