If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

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

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.