Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

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.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.