Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'