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.

A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

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

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.