If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

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

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.