I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.