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

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.