You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Everybody wants something.