Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.