Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"