We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

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.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person