No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.