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.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.