It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

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.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.