For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.