Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

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

You never know anyone until you marry them.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.