There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.