Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. 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.

Always take a job that is too big for you.