All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

We must do what we think we can't do.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!