Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

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

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.