Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.