Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

Love dies only when growth stops.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.