If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.