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!'

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

We need our radicals.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.