The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.