No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

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

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

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

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.