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.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.