Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.