It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.